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The Lazy Programmer’s Guide to AI-Assisted Development

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Being a Lazy Programmer

In “Code Complete (2nd edition)”, chapter 33.7:

33.7. Laziness

Laziness manifests itself in several ways: Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so that you don't have to answer so many questions about it. , Larry Wall * Deferring an unpleasant task * Doing an unpleasant task quickly to get it out of the way * Writing a tool to do the unpleasant task so that you never have to do the task again Some of these manifestations of laziness are better than others. The first is hardly ever beneficial. You've probably had the experience of spending several hours futzing with...

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